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Late at night, I often find myself watching the Cooking Channel; luckily for me I found this gem of a show Supersizers Go on one of those late night cooking show binges . This series originally appeared on the BBC in 2009 and follows Giles Coren a food critic and journalist and comedian Sue Perkins on their journey through the history of British cuisine. Of course being the Regency geek that I am I couldn’t wait to chance upon it one night at 1:00 am so I scoured the interwebs or rather YouTube and got my Regency Era food fix.

In this episode Giles and Sue are brother and sister, landed gentry. Giles has an inheritance of £50,000, equivalent to £2.5 million today, is a dandy and on his way to both debtor’s prison and gout (The disease of Kings). Sue, on the other hand is on her way to a much more dire fate: becoming an Ape Leader… Oh, the woes of a poor relation and spinster sister! I have to say that Giles is very dashing as a Regency Era dandy.

Just Hungry wrote a great review on this episode including the list of food below; 5000 calories worth of food a day (so much food, at the very least scroll down and take a gander of Giles in hot pink rollers):